Grey Lynn 2030 Transition Community

Discover the simple secrets of growing food, in the tranquil setting of Kelmarna Organic Gardens.

Topics will include garden design, permaculture principles, waste minimisation, growing organic produce, companion planting, seed saving and pest control techniques. There will be a high practical component.

Tutor: Adrian Roche

Course Fee: $85

Term 1                           Sat 18 Feb 2011             3 sessions                       9.30am-12.30 pm

Term 2                           Sat 12 May 2011           3 sessions                       9.30am-12.30 pm

Term 4                           Sat 3 Nov 2011              3 sessions                       9.30am-12.30 pm

Bring sunhat, gardening clothes, snack/drink for tea-break. $4 payable to tutor on first session for seeds.   

Enrolled students to meet at Kelmarna Gardens, 12 Hukanui Cres, Ponsonby. If raining, call 815 2222 to find out if class will be postponed.

This course is offered as part of the Western Springs College Adult Community Education programme.

Enrol online at www.leisuretimelearning.co.nz

For more information, email:   info@leisuretimelearning.co.nz

Phone:                                    (09) 815 2222 (day/eve) staffed part time

Grey Lynn’s last market of the year is a special one- off outside Christmas Market with live entertainment all morning:

• Our favourite sea shanty group, the Royal Fortune from 10am -11.30am
• Grey Lynn Community Choir at 11.30am
• The lovely sweet tunes of the Ukeladies   midday – 1pm

All our regular stallholders will be there as well as a full range of lunchtime food options including the Mexi-Kai truck

Note venue change for this Sunday only:  Carpark of the Grey Lynn Neighbourhood Law Office, between the Gypsy Tea Lounge and Nature Baby on Richmond Road.

And extended hours: Sunday 18th December 9am to 1.00pm

This is our last market of the year.  The Grey Lynn Farmers Market will reopen on Sunday 15th January 2012

We wish Wilton Street Community Garden founders Mandy McMullin and Dave Gilbert the best of luck in there move to the new orchard (and home)in the garden of Eden. Your constant passion has given birth to a flourishing haven for bird,bee and community in Wilton Street and beyond. From humble beginings of a jungle infested carpark you have managed to create a garden for Lizards, native trees, composting bays for the local recycling of waste, a water tank from the roof tops of The Vault and Gypsy Tearooms, beds for vegtable growning,applications for funding to council for basic needs of the garden, cups of tea for those in need , and all out of the love in your hearts !!!

This is not good bye, but an acknowledgement of your devotion to the garden and the compost !! See you with a sunhat soon.

From the gardeners of Wilton Street Community Garden.

In this Issue

• Grey Lynn Community Choir
• Christmas Cheer in Grey Lynn  
• December at the Grey Lynn Farmers’ Market
• Waste Away submission on the draft Waste Minimisation and Management Plan
• Celebrate our Summer Christmas season 
• Wilton Street Community Garden
• Shop Local this Christmas

The newsletter includes a calendar of events and other community updates. It comes out about once a month

If you would like to receive it directly please email greylynn2030@gmail.com

Grey Lynn Street Party

9 December, 4.30pm to 8pm

The Surrey Crescent shops would like to welcome you and your family to a Christmas Cheer in Grey Lynn street party with live music, food, gift stalls, and much Christmas cheer. Listen to the groovy rock melody of Tribal State and Concrete Jungle, the beautiful sound of Natasha Urale, and the angelic voice of Tree Stylus.

If you want to bring a small gift, these will be donated to the Grey Lynn Woman’s Refuge and Starship Hospital

Organised by the Grey Lynn Business Association and Kindly sponsored by Repeka Lelaulu and Grey Lynn Barfoot and Thompson

Grey Lynn 2030 has a very active Waste Away group who are excited about the opportunity for Auckland Council to take a whole new approach to rubbish – the valuable resource that currently ends up in our landfill in alarming quantities.

Recommendations in the draft Waste Management and Minimisation Plan will streamline the different waste management systems set up by the seven legacy councils, to help deliver waste services more efficiently, find better ways to reuse resources, and send less to landfill.  There is a lot to support in the plan but if the Council is serious about “Zero Waste”, to make Auckland the world’s most liveable city then there is still more to do strengthen the plan.

In making its submission Grey Lynn 2030 Waste Away urges Auckland Council to:

• be very proactive and stand up against the waste lobby to regain  control of Auckland’s resource stream
• push for mandatory product stewardship especially for E-waste, paint, hazardous materials, packaging, whiteware and furniture
• support beverage container deposits
• grant local community waste and recycling contracts rather than region-wide contracts
• look at shorter term contracts for internationally owned companies and longer contracts for NZ owned, or local, established waste companies
• help establish local resource recovery networks by providing training, helping with land and consenting
• encourage resource recovery networks in the direction of local control by community groups and local businesses
• encourage disposer-pays waste charges  (rates based for organic and recycling to encourage diversion)
• foster local solutions to local waste problems
• to have stronger regulation on cleanfills
• encourage the dismantling of buildings for C&D rather than bulldozing
• stop inorganic collections and instead redirect materials to resource recovery network.  Money saved from inorganic collections to go to establishing resource recovery instead
• advocate for legislation for an Organic Ban to Landfill by 2020
• help local rural communities to establish community-based or rural based composting or organic waste diversion to landfill operations
• change the target date from 40% reduction to landfill by 2040 to 80% by 2020
• advocate for container deposit legislation
• advocate for legislation to introduce the mandatory reduction in waste to landfill from business and industry, not just government
• purchase Living Earth Composting from TPI to help control organic waste stream
• have as a priority minimising wasted resources  to landfill,  and how to do that quickly.  Making it easy and profitable for waste companies should not be a priority, indeed, it should not even be considered.
• sponsor free consultation for Cleaner Production for Business and Industry

The plan is now out for discussion until 31 January 2012. Please use any of the points above to make your own submission – including what you strongly support and like.

Closing date for submissions: 31st January 2012 however, do it now, don’t put it off!

Have your say by 4pm 31 January 2012.

 Visit www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/wasteplan to download a copy of the full plan, summary document and complete an online submission form. You can also pick up a copy of the plan, summary and freepost submission form, from your local board office, council service centre or library. For more information call 09 301 0101.